[Journey to the West] Tucao Emperor who was delayed by Buddhism

It has been three days since the Lantern Festival, and there is still no news from Longnu.

The originally bustling streets have returned to deserted, and the population of Baoxiang Kingdom is small. We searched door to door, and the Monkey King scriptures were not taken. We downloaded the entire imperial city, but we couldn't find the dragon girl.

Hui An said to me: "No matter where it went, it didn't go in the air. It may have escaped in the water, dug out of the ground, whatever." We asked the king of Baoxiang Kingdom again, Is there any tunnel around here? The answer is that there is no such thing. There is only a stinky ditch beside the imperial city wall, and all the filth from the palace is poured into it.

It is said that the river water used to be quite sacred. During the Lantern Festival, girls would go to the river to release river lanterns. Later, the imperial city was expanded, and a river of love was built, and it became a stinky ditch.

My black bear monster comes to this Baoxiang country every year to get together with his silly Baitian and that little white flower. Naturally, he understands the changes of Baoxiang country over the past hundred years better than the locals, and quietly told me: "What is the river of love? Smelly ditch. It’s just that it wasn’t used so blatantly before, and the lanterns floated over that and that…”

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We asked the king again if there were any strange things in Baoxiang Kingdom, and the most bizarre thing was that he lost the princess, and he started to cry, remembering how hard it was for his daughter to be kidnapped by monsters, the more he cried, the harder he cried. It's hard for us to ask any more.

We found it on the fourth day in the city, and confirmed that there was nothing in the city, so we had to go to the mountains outside the city to look for it. Everyone searched and found that Tang Seng was a meat bun. When everyone looked at Tang Seng, it took more time to find the dragon girl. They are all grown up, so I have no choice but to drive away their master and apprentice to learn scriptures, and we are left with a few gods and monsters to work hard to find.

On the fifth day, I was completely in a panic.

The morning mist hadn't had time to dissipate, and the air was still filled with the breath of night. Ling Xu's scream pierced the still-unlit sky, scaring his two apprentices to the ground, and a pair of electric eyes flashed in the clouds and fog. With a frightened light.

We rushed outside to find him, only to see him on the edge of the brook, holding a dead body and crying like hell, crying and choking up, "What's wrong with you, little white flower!"

I rushed over to take a look, and saw a beautiful woman in his arms. It was originally a piece of vegetation. She had cultivated for thousands of years to obtain a human form. She should have revealed her true form after death, but for some reason she still maintained her appearance when she was dead. Drenched in water, his eyes were wide open, staring blankly at the gray sky above his head.

Seeing him crying so much, Hui An asked me in a low voice, "Master, did he strip his soul and die?"

I said: "Probably, the body is not damaged, so the original shape has not been revealed."

Hui An said: "Strange, shouldn't you die immediately after stripping your soul? Why did this corpse surface? Could it be that the monster who killed her not only swallowed her soul, but also wanted this corpse?"

He talked to me a lot, seeing that I didn't answer either, he asked blankly, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

I looked at the dead body in that silly Baitian's arms, turned back to Hui An, and said in a low voice with fear: "Soul stripping is something that monsters can't do."

Hui An was startled: "What?"

I said: "You must know that the affairs of this world are under the control of the kings on earth. Go, and record it. If the monster refuses to return its soul, the underworld will report it, and the gods will take care of it. Just like the day Jingzhe swallowed the 17 Yuanshen, if it takes a long time, black and white will come to find it His. So if the underworld doesn’t care about it, it’s probably the work of the gods.”

"You can see that the corpse is so lifelike, I'm afraid this soul stripper has already been familiar with it, and has been doing it for an unknown number of years."

Hui An pondered for a moment, then asked: "Master, do you think Dragon Girl will..."

One of them died already, and the more I thought about it, the more frightened I was, so I sent Shancai back to the South China Sea to stay, fearing that something might happen to him, and then hurriedly took Hui An to the underworld to find him.

Heiheiwuchang stood at the head of the bridge to meet me on the bridge of Naihe in the Xuepenhe border of the prefecture. He bowed to me and said, "What's the matter with the Bodhisattva?"

I said: "There is a plant in Baoxiang Kingdom that has grown into a spirit. Because of its extreme spirituality, it has been cultivated into a human form, but someone stripped its soul away. Do you have a record in the underworld?"

Black and white impermanence looked at each other, then looked at me, and said in unison: "It has never been recorded."

Hei Wuchang is taller, bowed to me at this moment and said: "Bodhisattva, the soul of this... the spirit of plants and trees has been missing for a few days, but now it has arrived in the underworld. , reincarnated."

I said: "Nonsense! She is only the soul that died seven days ago. The first seven days have just passed, and if she has arrived in the underworld, she may follow the soul banner to cross the Naihe Bridge. The team of thousands of evil spirits will have to wait in line for several days. That's it?"

Neither of the two impermanent dared to speak anymore, they just bowed their heads respectfully in front of me, secretly looking at me and I at you, all with secretly unlucky expressions.

The two Impermanence looked at each other for a long while, and Bai Wu saw that Black Impermanence was useless, so he said helplessly: "The Bodhisattva doesn't know something. On that day, the soul of King Tang came to the underworld, and the ten kings said to him: I have winter melons and watermelons in this underworld. Pumpkin, after this, the king of Tang was still alive, so the pumpkin was sent here. It is nothing more than saying that there are still countless ghosts in the world who refuse to accept the control of the underworld, and they are all stranded in the dead city. Even if they die, they will not enter the six realms of reincarnation. After the king of Tang sent the pumpkin, many ghosts in the Tang Dynasty came under our jurisdiction."

He said a lot before he finally said: "But before this, there were ancient immortals who were above the immortals, but refused to obey the jurisdiction of the heavens, and jumped out of the reincarnation. The immortal people are the most difficult. Like that 500 years ago The Great Sage Equaling Heaven, who made a big disturbance in the heavenly palace, jumped into the underworld, and drew the books of life and death of [-] people all over the mountain, so powerful, I have no choice but to confess, and dare not say more."

I was taken aback: "You said that this soul-destroyer is stronger than that Monkey King?"

Hei Wuchang complained: "It's not that they are more powerful, but they are both masters who are not easy to mess with. The two have never fought against each other. Who knows which one is better?"

Bai Wuchang sighed and said: "He never caused any trouble, he only captured the soul of a beautiful woman every ten years, left a shell, put the soul in a small jar, and put it back together with the corpse ten years later. The only exception is the flower demon, probably because of something wrong with the body, it was thrown out."

I said: "So you sent that flower demon to reincarnation immediately in order to calm things down?"

Hei Wuchang was upright in the end, and said: "Where is it sent to reincarnation, there are good conditions to make her shut up. There is no good deed at all, but the next life is a good life for a human being. These immortals are not under the jurisdiction of the upper realm, but their cultivation base is not. He is so powerful, and there is no one in charge of him, so we have to let him make trouble in the world. 600 years ago, we thought he was disturbing the order. Under the circumstances, he has shown his head for ten years, so don't be too low-key, so in comparison, we are even grateful to him, let alone his business."

When Bai Wuchang talked about Sun Wukong, he became angry: "Bodhisattva, think about it, he hooked the lives and deaths of 500 monkeys that day, how much effort we have put in to recover the souls of these [-] monkeys, how can there be time to care about them?" What about the Sanxian who only killed one person in ten years? The monkeys in Huaguo Mountain, natural disasters, man-made disasters, begging the little sage Erlang Zhenjun to set fire, only killed [-] in [-] years, and now there are still [-], what a headache."

While he was talking, Hui An suddenly said, "Why do these [-] monkeys have to die?"

Hei Wuchang said: "Hui An Xingzhe, Sun Dasheng doesn't understand, why don't you understand? The monkey clan, who cultivated to become immortals, can only get a hundred or ten predestined ones in thousands of years. His sum is a total of [-]. Thousands of people will never age and die. How many people will be born! Aren’t the nearby mountains exhausted? Besides, there are other races on the mountain besides monkeys, and all the food is robbed by monkeys. These monkeys don’t grow old and die. Another one Armed, more and more, the entire system of the mountain is in chaos. The Huaguo Cave is a blessed place, which can last for hundreds of years, but after a hundred years, these immortal monkeys will go to other places to seize the food of the mortal monkeys. and territory, what did it end up with?"

Bai Wuchang also said: "Besides, monkeys reproduce from generation to generation. If the climate changes, the monkeys will naturally evolve and improve. Isn't the gods just to manage the world? These monkeys are not dead, how can the race improve and develop? They squeezed out those who reproduced normally. For monkeys of the new generation, if a natural disaster strikes one day, and these monkeys are completely unadapted and die, will there be no more monkeys in the world? Although Sun Wukong is kind, he cannot be all good after all. The underworld is responsible for life and death. You can't offend him, it's really hard to re-manage..."

If he poured more bitter water, the day would be over.

Let the management department complain about Monkey King, and they can really complain about it for three days and three nights without stopping.

In order to get to the point as soon as possible, I could only interrupt him: "Then you haven't seen that Sanxian in the past hundred years? Do you know his origin and background? What is his original body and how much is his cultivation? "

Hei Wuchang tilted his head and thought: "I don't know anything else, I only know that it is a mirror from the ancient times, with a cultivation level... Ten Kings fought with him once, and they were evenly matched. It would be indecent to fight again, and there will be no follow-up."

Bai Wuchang said again: "There is only one thing that is very strange: the beautiful woman captured by him lost her soul and was just a corpse. At first we only thought he was a lunatic who loved corpses, but one day we found out that The corpse showed no signs of decay, it only became older than it was ten years ago..."

When he said this, even though he had been serving in the underworld for many years, and many evil spirits had passed by, he also showed a look of fear: "Bodhisattva, you said that if a person is dead, how can he still grow old?"

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